Welcome to Oaksterdam! The Epicenter of the Marijuana Legalization Movement

Located in the pot-friendly "Oaksterdam" section of Oakland, California, Oaksterdam University aims to teach its students the fundamentals of growing and marketing marijuana.

The curriculum covers everything from law and politics to business and horticulture. The university also provides training for entrepreneurs in the medical pot industry as well as several dispensaries, a Bulldog Coffeeshop, and a gift shop.

University founder Richard Lee tells Reason.tv that he and other Bay Area activists were inspired by the example of Amsterdam, a city with some of the most liberal marijuana policies in the world. As he put it, "We went to Amsterdam and said you know, hey, we can do this here; it shows it can work.

Oaksterdam University is one of the major sponsors of the Tax and Regulate initiative that will be on the ballot in California this November. If passed, marijuana would be legalized and regulated like alcohol.

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[pag3r]

@willabeesgotapollo13 i did in North Hollywood.... the cop was like, ummm you know this guy is going through your garbage can over here? Im from Iowa so i was like, shit son! its all gravy! im fried!

[RBKL777]

When you graduate you would then have what it takes to get licence to grow and sell some very good cannabis to dispenseries.

[DansFishChannel]

2 words- RON PAUL- if you really want it legalized!!!

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[willabeesgotapollo13]

@ben052488 so you can smoke a joint next to a cop?

[Hotshoe]

I got one of those buldog coasters from 1988, and i couldn't get the disposable camera pics developed at walmart of the grass when i got home.

[SketchyMa420]

I'm sooo stoned. 

[ben052488]

The origin of the pot reform my ass. Weed is still illegal there while in Denver,the mile High city, weed is legal. Get you fact right.

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@7h3tSLDR02

(important)>Here's where the catch is = U DON'T GET ANY JOBZ FOR SMOKING POT / GOING TO OAKSTERDAM ;P

[7h3tSLDR02]

The only thing is, what kind of jobs can you get after graduating from here? Like good paying jobs, not just budtenders cause i dont even think they get paid that good.